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DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE
by A. E. Merritt

BOOK OF KHALK'RU
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII


DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE

BOOK OF KHALK'RU

CHAPTER I

SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT

I RAISED my head, listening,Чnot only with my ears
but with every square inch of my skin, waiting for
recurrence of the sound that had awakened me. There
was silence, utter silence. No soughing in the boughs of
the spruces clustered around the little camp. No stirring
of furtive life in the underbrush. Through the spires of
the spruces the stars shone wanly in the short sunset to
sunrise twilight of the early Alaskan summer.

A sudden wind bent the spruce tops, carrying again
the soundЧthe clangour of a beaten anvil.

I slipped out of my blanket, and round the dim